Replit Deployments: Choosing Between Autoscale and Reserved VM for Production
Autoscale or Reserved VM? A practical framework for choosing a Replit deployment target based on cold starts, concurrency ceilings, cost models, and workload type.
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Autoscale or Reserved VM? A practical framework for choosing a Replit deployment target based on cold starts, concurrency ceilings, cost models, and workload type.
Deployment Choice for Local Disk State When an app built in a Replit workspace writes data to the local file system—such as an SQLite database or uploaded media—it relies on a persistent disk that is only guaranteed during the lifetime of the workspace. Deployments, however, rebuild the application in a new container each time they are started or redeployed.